Job Description

Your Role

As Technical Expert (f/m/d) for Metadata Management Applications & Business Data Architecture, you actively contribute to the success of the digital transformation at ZEISS, driven by ZEISS Digital Partners. You will play a crucial role in developing tools to manage the end2end lifecycle of data, metadata and their respective modeling artifacts:

• You will design the solution architecture and build highly scalable technical solutions for the automated consolidation, mapping and modeling of (meta-)data, related processes and knowledge
• You are responsible to ensuring the seamless integration of the enterprise-wide Data Catalog into the ZEISS digital ecosystem
• You translate the business context into physical artifacts (business process modelling, data models, application models, integration / system models)
• You investigate user needs and provide technical solutions, processes and data artifacts that meet the requirements of our stakeholders
• You take responsibility for applications and stakeholders during development, commissioning and ensure stable operations
• You will evaluate the latest trends and technologies to continuously provide guidance on architectural decisions to ensure interoperability and system readiness for state-of-the art functionalities such as GenAI and LLMs
• You lead the development team to meet high quality standards, by continuously establishing best practices
• You automate and deploy user workflows and connect them to other systems and applications on the Cloud Data Platform
• You Represent the topic metadata management in internal expert groups and continuous exchange with outside of the company expert groups

Your Profile

• Excellent university degree (M.Sc.) in computer science, business informatics, mathematics, natural science or in a related field

• 6+ years of relevant professional experience:
  • 4+ years of experience in software development
  • Professional development skills in Python/Java/Scala
  • Data and metadata engineering
  • Technical design and architecture
  • 2+ years of experience with customer-facing application development
  • Experience with Cloud technologies like Microsoft Azure
  • Proficiency in creating conceptual, logical, and physical data models. Thorough knowledge of Business and Data Architecture in context of one or multiple Frameworks (TOGAF, ArchiMate)
  • Business process and capabilities expertise through thorough understanding of core IT Systems and their related data (SAP; Salesforce; Adobe Marketo / Customer Data Platform)
  • Professional Experience in multiple forms of Data Storages (Azure Blob, Synapsis) and their interrogation (SQL)
  • Cloud-based development artifacts (Terraform)
  • Agile Software-development using Scrum / Kanban
  • Best-practices and implementation for continuous integration / delivery
  • Technical development and integration of User-Request Workflows through reusable Rest APIs
  • Knowledge of data governance frameworks and best practices. Understanding of data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR) and security protocols
• A strong ownership for developed products
• A strong customer-oriented mindset
• An independent, conscientious and solution-oriented way of working
• Fluency in English

What we offer

Our employees are the innovative backbone and driving force of our company. That is why you are our focus.

• Technology stack: Modern and cutting-edge technology stack with opportunities to experiment and innovate within a high-tech group
• Flexible work options: 40-60% hybrid work option to provide flexibility and work-life balance
• Additional benefits: Annual flexible benefits that include cafeteria options, private health plans, and annual reward
• Extra option: Company parking space in the underground garage of the office building can be reserved
• Contribution: Opportunity to directly contribute to the development of innovative products through software delivery
• Supportive work environment: working in a team composed of excellent teammates and a supportive lead who collaborate to guide and support professional development from day one

At ZEISS we encourage creative thinking and innovation. We work in dynamic and interdisciplinary teams and offer individual development perspectives and flexibility in organizing your work. We care about our employees and take responsibility for improving society and preserving our environment. These core values have shaped our corporate culture at ZEISS for over 175 years.

Join our inclusive and diverse #teamZEISS and enable the digital future for ZEISS and our synergy clients

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:

Bartha Györgyi